Video editing HELP needed!

[Gremlin]

well, some have fired through fine... stuck on 2 projects. One has a mpg it hates, the other has a corrupt audio file I think.

He's busy re-making them now... problem is, the issues make movie maker unstable, so we have been unable to edit the existing project.

[Motoracer]

And.... Its done!

First of all.. the BIGEST thank you to Gremlin. He's THE man!

Plus a bloody good dude to help me out from 2:30 PM till midnight. It would not have been possible with out your and your computer's help. Thanks heaps again!

After coming home, I watched it. It's 98% good with 2 pretty minor mistakes in the movie but I think it really is the thought that'll count on this. So it's cool.

I fed-exed it and it should arrive into Germany (where she is) on Wednesday to make it in time for her birthday on Friday.

I feel really happy and relived now...

P.S. If you wana make a movie with some flash effects? Forget about it unless if you have a VERY flash computer..

Cheers!!

[Hoon]

Good stuff MR! The hard work you put in is rewarded when you see people watching the final product!

I hate editing video. Learned and did it once for a small project - took me ages but came out fantastic - vowed never to do it again. But now everyone that saw it keeps asking me to do stuff for them.

Video editing is very time consuming. The general formula is 1 hr of work for every min of finished footage. Double that if you want to clean up the sound as well. I tried pretty much every editing application out there, read a lot of reviews and settled on Roxio 7 as my main workhorse. It doesn't have all the features of Premiere/Pinnacle but it is very stable. If I need anything flash I just edit that segment in Premiere/Pinnacle then export it back to Roxio.